The Top 300 Comics had sales worth$20.24 million (down 6%
vs.
same month
previous year)(up
4% vs. same month
5 years earlier)(up
31% vs. same month
10 years earlier)

Category to date for year$225.39 million
(down 4% vs. previous year)

All
comics sold by
Diamond (in dollars)down 4.86%vs. same
month previous yeardown 4.64%year to date

The Top 300 Trade Paperbacks and Graphic Novels had sales
worth$7.2 million (up 18%
vs.
same month
previous year)(down
1% vs. same month
5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 TPBs)(up 87% vs. same
month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 TPBs)

Category to date for year$69.79 million
(down 4% vs. previous year)

All
trade paperbacks and graphic novels sold by
Diamond (in dollars)up 11.7%vs. same
month previous yeardown 3.22%year to date

Combined Top 300 Comic Book and Top 300 Trade Paperback
sales were worth$27.44 million (down 1%
vs.
same month
previous year)(up
3% vs. same month
5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 TPBs)(up 18% vs. same
month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 TPBs)

Note: This category diverges slightly from Diamond's
reported measures for all comics and TPBs. Slight differences are
introduced through the accuracy of the comparison year's calculation,
the presence of magazines, and other factors. Average cost of
comics in the
Top
300:$3.78

THE FINE PRINT

The monthly sales estimates at right are
for comics shipped byDiamond
Comic Distributors,
the largest comic-book distributor in North America.

Diamond publishes "indexed" sales figures, in
which it keys orders for all comics it lists sales for to a single
comic book (usually Batman),
with one “order index point” being equal to 1% of that title’s orders.
We use the actual Diamond final orders from titles accounting for more
than 25% of Diamond’s Top 300 to approximate what an order index point
equals each month. The result is applied to the Diamond charts to
produce the estimates seen at right.